I think it's reasonable for us to need to pay the people who own the physical medium we communicate over. It sucks, to be sure, but it is reasonable.
I really want huge clouds of overlapping wireless networks, in some more distributed fashion. We'll have so much more control then. Also, we'll need to be able to put up our own satelites so that the link overseas and out into the boonies can be complete.
That is a huge undertaking, I mean, Even if the John Carmacks of the world help us launch satelites just for the betterment of everyone, business will still interfere. There'll be laws taking away our use of public radio frequencies, laws against civilian satelites.
Same way as it is now. We'll really have to put our smarts together to pull off a migration away from those damn overpriced landlines that we can never really own.
I guess the point is, I can't think of a justification for using a companies lines for free, they own them, but by the fuck I can get behind the idea that radio frequencies and outer space belong to everyone.
I have some wireless stuff that I use all the time, and I love them, and I'm in no way going to give them up.... but, I was wondering if anyone else experiences anything like this:
When I use my 802.11b card in my laptop, I find that when it's sitting on my lap, my leg where the card is will often begin hurting a bit, or if I rest my arm touching it for a bit, my arm will begin to hurt. I also experience this from carrying my cell phone around in my pants pocket.
At any rate, I really only feel an effect if the wireless things are physically touching me so I know how to avoid it. I wonder how many others experience this and how bad it actually is for a person.
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Since when were all the Kernel developers making Linux for businesses? In the open letter, Daryl was all about saying that we're damaging our hopes and dreams for Linux in businesses.
I don't know about you, but I could give a rats ass about weather or not the business world finds Linux acceptable or not. I highly doubt the developers and all the other OSS folks or me will stop developing and working on Linux regardless of what anyone says or thinks.
It's nice to have drivers from businesses that make hardware and all that, but we didn't have them before and we surely shouldn't become reliant on them.
Therefore all the crap that Daryl is trying to use to scare us with, shouldn't work.
Personally, I think that this stupid obsession with getting everyone and their mom to use Linux as their desktop OS at home and in business is going to hurt Linux more than anything because of the comprimises that will need to be implemented to get them aboard.
Just a nitpick, but I don't think that VOIP uses TCP, or that any other service like it would. TCP is set up so that packets should never be able to get lost, if they are lost they're resent and assembled even if they arrive out of order. This is why most streaming media now uses UDP, because when packets become lost with UDP they stay lost.
You wouldn't want a few packets that took a wrong turn during a phone call to suddenly arrive out of order, or for your call to lag out, waiting for some insignificant 512 byte packet to arrive. UDP or something like it will be used and not TCP.
I read an article in Phrack about how people could start setting up webpages, with links that are exploits. So say you made a web page with a link to www.blah.com/blah.asp?HHHHHHHHHHHHHH.... something like the code red exploit. Then when the a web indexer etc. comes around it will not only perform the exploit for you, it may end up indexing this expoit for others to find in search results. Although I don't think that google will archive something with a ?HHHHH.. on the end, many bots will probably follow any link they come across. That would be a search engine manipulation if you ask me, although quite different than say googlebombing.
My delusions of designing video games started a bit earlier with my friends in like grade 5 or so. We'd draw out new levels for existing game franchises ie Mario, etc. We were going to try and make it and send it in to Nintendo and thought it would be magically good enough for our ideas to make it into a real game.
Anyway I must still be delusional cause I'm starting my 4th year of formal game programming education this year, maybe I'll make a published game yet.
At any rate this reminded me of just how long I've been trying this game making stuff, Yay./!
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I think it's reasonable for us to need to pay the people who own the physical medium we communicate over. It sucks, to be sure, but it is reasonable.
I really want huge clouds of overlapping wireless networks, in some more distributed fashion. We'll have so much more control then. Also, we'll need to be able to put up our own satelites so that the link overseas and out into the boonies can be complete.
That is a huge undertaking, I mean, Even if the John Carmacks of the world help us launch satelites just for the betterment of everyone, business will still interfere. There'll be laws taking away our use of public radio frequencies, laws against civilian satelites.
Same way as it is now. We'll really have to put our smarts together to pull off a migration away from those damn overpriced landlines that we can never really own.
I guess the point is, I can't think of a justification for using a companies lines for free, they own them, but by the fuck I can get behind the idea that radio frequencies and outer space belong to everyone.
Spammers are causing more grief than hundreds of murders? I don't think the grief caused by one spam is anywhere near that of one murder.
Unless you mean something totally different, I think you might have your priorities a little messed up.
I have some wireless stuff that I use all the time, and I love them, and I'm in no way going to give them up.... but, I was wondering if anyone else experiences anything like this:
When I use my 802.11b card in my laptop, I find that when it's sitting on my lap, my leg where the card is will often begin hurting a bit, or if I rest my arm touching it for a bit, my arm will begin to hurt. I also experience this from carrying my cell phone around in my pants pocket.
At any rate, I really only feel an effect if the wireless things are physically touching me so I know how to avoid it. I wonder how many others experience this and how bad it actually is for a person.
Since when were all the Kernel developers making Linux for businesses? In the open letter, Daryl was all about saying that we're damaging our hopes and dreams for Linux in businesses.
I don't know about you, but I could give a rats ass about weather or not the business world finds Linux acceptable or not. I highly doubt the developers and all the other OSS folks or me will stop developing and working on Linux regardless of what anyone says or thinks.
It's nice to have drivers from businesses that make hardware and all that, but we didn't have them before and we surely shouldn't become reliant on them.
Therefore all the crap that Daryl is trying to use to scare us with, shouldn't work.
Personally, I think that this stupid obsession with getting everyone and their mom to use Linux as their desktop OS at home and in business is going to hurt Linux more than anything because of the comprimises that will need to be implemented to get them aboard.
Just a nitpick, but I don't think that VOIP uses TCP, or that any other service like it would. TCP is set up so that packets should never be able to get lost, if they are lost they're resent and assembled even if they arrive out of order. This is why most streaming media now uses UDP, because when packets become lost with UDP they stay lost.
You wouldn't want a few packets that took a wrong turn during a phone call to suddenly arrive out of order, or for your call to lag out, waiting for some insignificant 512 byte packet to arrive. UDP or something like it will be used and not TCP.
I read an article in Phrack about how people could start setting up webpages, with links that are exploits. So say you made a web page with a link to www.blah.com/blah.asp?HHHHHHHHHHHHHH.... something like the code red exploit. Then when the a web indexer etc. comes around it will not only perform the exploit for you, it may end up indexing this expoit for others to find in search results. Although I don't think that google will archive something with a ?HHHHH.. on the end, many bots will probably follow any link they come across. That would be a search engine manipulation if you ask me, although quite different than say googlebombing.
My delusions of designing video games started a bit earlier with my friends in like grade 5 or so. We'd draw out new levels for existing game franchises ie Mario, etc. We were going to try and make it and send it in to Nintendo and thought it would be magically good enough for our ideas to make it into a real game.
./!
Anyway I must still be delusional cause I'm starting my 4th year of formal game programming education this year, maybe I'll make a published game yet.
At any rate this reminded me of just how long I've been trying this game making stuff, Yay
"There should be 2 little wires that lead into the induction coil that controls the movement of the heads"
heh, I thought induction coils were just a Star Trek thing. I learn so much from slashdot...